"I can't live with myself any longer"

“I can’t live with myself any longer” was a quote Eckhart Tolle repeated to himself when he was in a deep state of depression at 29 yrs old.

At that moment he analyzed that thought for a moment “I can’t live with myself any longer”…so who am “I” and who is “myself”? This sentence implies that there are two of me, “I” and “myself” but that can’t be true.

The “I” he was speaking of is who you truly are, the aware consciousness (the “I am that I am” – Exodus 3:14) that is also life.

The “myself” he could no longer live with is the incessant stream of repetitive thoughts of the mind, conditioned over years of your “life” (which is just the past), that associates everything, even your perception of reality, as a thought. But you are not the thought, you, “I”, are the awareness, consciousness, life, God, however you want to describe it.

You are not your thoughts, but you are, at your essential nature, the awareness of your thoughts. Be that. Be the awareness, and realize you are conscious life.